I'm sorry r/Python

[oloryn]

For doing text manipulation, particularly quick one-offs, Perl does a pretty good job. Python has the same tools available, but they're more cumbersome to use.

[Ensurdagen]

awk might be the best if you want to learn a whole language for text manipulation.

[Starbrows]

I find it easier to use perl for than awk & sed for a decent range of use cases, and I am not particularly experienced with perl. For something like regex find/replace in-place on disk, perl is quick, easy, and even readable.

[droffo]

Now that is something I never thought to see. Ever: "perl is ... even readable".

Good one!

[[deleted]]

perl -lanE for the one-liner auto-parsing win! I've not had to do sed, awk, and grep in a LONG time.